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From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User)
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Subject: Re: HD Problems, another question
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Date: 3 Oct 90 23:14:51 GMT
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In article <1990Oct3.082855.7591@nntp-server.caltech.edu> toddpw@tybalt.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) writes:
>>unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) writes:
>>	What I believe to be the case is that the GS is 'polling' the SCSI
>>card... Since there's no card there, it's hung up (for a while)..
>>	If you let it sit for somewhere around 15-30 seconds (I forget for
>>sure), it will then start rebooting slot 5 or whatever slot you have
>>set to boot from.
>
>This is correct. When the SCSI card is first turned on it has to wait a minimum
>of 10 seconds to give SCSI devices time to warm up. The SCSI specification says
>that a device does not have to be ready to answer ANY requests for ten seconds
>but must be able to respond after that time.

I'm glad you agree with my reasoning for the wait, yet from some things
you've said I believe you possibly are talking about something different.

The original poster and I are talking about a wait AFTER the PRODOS
text screen comes up(i.e. ProDOS 8 1.8 or whatever and copyright notice)..

At that screen, the GS -sometimes- pauses for ~15-30 seconds...And
it doesn't matter if it's a cold or warm boot from what I remember. It
does NOT do it always though which is really really odd. If you let it sit
there (which I didn't the first few times.. it scared me that something
was wrong), then it will keep booting slot 5 in a little while.

Not the same thing as the bootup wait..  And as I said in my original
message, it does this occassional wait whether you have slot 7 to AppleTalk
or Your Card.. It only does it with the SCSI Card in there though obviously.

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